About Us
By placing zero-barrier vending machines full of Narcan outside of host-businesses and bringing outreach initiatives to carefully chosen high-need areas of town weekly, N.I.C.E. is ensuring that everyone sees themselves as carriers of naloxone and harm reduction supplies. Distribution of these supplies and education needs an update in response to the increasingly unpredictable street drug supply. Drug War-driven stigma and a new face of unknowing opioid users demands a new distribution model that’s more accessible, anonymous, and not weighed down by the language of substance use disorder.
Narcan and education around opioid overdose can be useful in the hands and heads of every person. By incorporating those with lived experience in the implementation, N.I.C.E. Project has built trust and reliable services to the community and will be a great partner for this project.
How N.I.C.E Started
The N.I.C.E. Project seeks to expand syringe and safer use supply services and improve outreach services in new locations around Austin. N.I.C.E. began as a low-barrier, grassroots naloxone vending machine project and has expanded to incorporate outreach services based on the need in our local community, providing people who use drugs in our community with comprehensive, life-saving support.
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve the quality of life of people who use drugs in central Texas by making imperceptible barriers to overdose reversal medication and safer use supplies. This will allow drug users to survive and thrive - and if they so choose - join us in fighting for safe supply and for our liberation, which is tied with that of so many others’ marginalized by society.
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